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    Sony Play TV DTT works with Nova T Driver :-)

    Folks following on from this post on another forum, and am happy to report great news
    Quote Originally Posted by irishfreeview View Post
    Just been playing with my new Vu Duo and the new Vix 2.2 Image.
    I was looking at the DTT tuner plugins and I noticed something. The Standard drivers for the Nova HD plugin have the same specs as the Sony Playstation 3 drivers.

    Guess what.
    It works.

    I can confirm the Sony Play Station 3 Play TV DTT tuner works perfect with the Nova drivers and it gives you all the current Irish DTT channels including RTE 2 HD.
    And its a dual tuner!!!!!
    I was about to sell mine but stopped short when I seen one selling for just £6 on ebay!
    My advice, grab one quick!
    I can confirm that the PlayTV works with Nova T drivers and works as a twin tuner

    I picked up one on Ebay for €20 and now have the Irish DTT service clear as a bell!
    Finally be able to watch the Magners/RaboDirect League Rugby in HD for next season!
    Great spot Irishfreeview, Kudos Buddy!
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    Which version of the Nova T drivers did you install from the feeds?
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    i can see these things going daft on ebay now.
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    glad i got my Nova T of ebay for £9 delivered
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sicilian View Post
    Which version of the Nova T drivers did you install from the feeds?
    The wintv.nova.t(1.0-r2) its working beautifully picked it up straight away on reboot and showing as tuners C/D scanned my channels and recorded 3 DVB-T while watching 1

    Quote Originally Posted by bassethound View Post
    glad i got my Nova T of ebay for £9 delivered
    Now that was cheap! I paid £20 including shipping for mine, but hey thats still cheap for a twin tuner in my book!

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    can anyone link me one on ebay? not sure which one it is...

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    HTML Code:
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Play-TV-PlayStation-3-PS3-/230639308723?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameAccessories_VideoGameAccessories_JN&hash=item35b32c8fb3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stanman View Post
    No HD for those of us in Blight than
    I'm not sure on that.
    BUT as the MPEG4 decoding is handed off the Duo and the Play TV has the same hardware signature as the NovaT(Does NovaT do Freeview HD) I'd be very suprised if the PlayTV didnt handle Freeview HD.
    I know it wont do it on the PS3 but thats a Sony issue

    But I'll hedge my bets and wait for a UK user to confirm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stanman View Post
    You guys are on DVB T and we are DVB T2
    I know that
    But as the hardware signatures are the same on the Sony PlayTV and The Hauppage Nova-T TD and the Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T usb Stick and others according to here
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    http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Sony_PlayTV_dual_tuner_DVB-T
    And given the fact that both those tuners do Freeview HD(Or am I wrong? Apologies if I am, But then at least this is still a good twin tuner option for Ireland/Europe)
    I think the PlayTV installed under the Nova-T drivers will do the job in the UK too.
    But like I said I've not tried it but based on the fact that the chipset is the same as Nova-T TD which according to what I've found on google will do UK freeview HD I don't see why it wouldnt.

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    Unfortunately for UK viewers Freeview HD does not work with PlayTV. This was a sense of annoyance for UK PS3 owners who bought it originally on launch on the assumption that it would work with the UK HD channels.

    Freeview HD requires a DVB-T2 tuner.

    The tuner in the PlayTV is a twin DVB-T tuner which will sadly not tune the DVB-T2 channels. PlayTV works very well as a twin Freeview SD tuner for the VU+Duo. There will never be any potential for the UK Freeview HD channels to be received with PlayTV as it is a hardware limitation and not a software limitation.

    The only USB DVB-T2 stick that I know of is the PCTV Nanostick and as far as I know no linux drivers exist for that one..

    The reason that the Irish Saorview HD channels work ok is that they are on standard DVB-T frequencies which the PlayTV can receive and the VU+ has no problems decoding the MPEG4 HD stream.

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    Sony Play TV DTT works with Nova T Driver :-)

    Sorry to reply to such an old thread, but it's the only one I could find related to play TV by Sony.

    @banie I am using the Play TV with my Vu Duo here in Ireland, and it works very well. However, Every now and again, I get a blank screen with the message: No data on transponder (No signal on PAT) or something similar.

    I solve it by doing a reboot. Simply changing the channel doesn't fix it. The problem happens maybe twice a week.

    I'm running the latest VIX 3.808. I reflashed last week, and did a fresh scan also. I've got the 0700 driver installed from feeds.

    Am I alone, or does anyone else see this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by finbarr View Post
    Sorry to reply to such an old thread, but it's the only one I could find related to play TV by Sony.

    @banie I am using the Play TV with my Vu Duo here in Ireland, and it works very well. However, Every now and again, I get a blank screen with the message: No data on transponder (No signal on PAT) or something similar.

    I solve it by doing a reboot. Simply changing the channel doesn't fix it. The problem happens maybe twice a week.

    I'm running the latest VIX 3.808. I reflashed last week, and did a fresh scan also. I've got the 0700 driver installed from feeds.

    Am I alone, or does anyone else see this?
    Thankfully I have not noticed that problem here at all on my duo 2 with the play tv tuner Only time I ever see this problem is with rte+1 channel either when it's off air (pre 7pm) or when there are certain programs which cannot be shown on this channel for contractual reasons (eg fair city) rte use mheg 5 to send an on-screen message to explain this but unfortunately none of the e2 boxes support mheg 5

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